Robinson, Marilynne.
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Trade pbk. ed.
An intimate tale of three generations, from the Civil war to the twentieth century; a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that rage within all of us.
2005
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Gilead / Robinson, Marilynne.
Robinson, Marilynne author.
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1st ed.
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowan preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Christ bound in chains and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition: He "preached men into the Civil War," then, at age fifty, became a chaplain in the Union Army, losing his right eye in battle. Reverend Ames writes to his son about the tension between his father--an ardent pacifist--and his grandfather, whose pistol and bloody shirts, concealed in an army blanket, may be relics from the fight between the abolitionists and those settlers who wanted to vote Kansas into the union as a slave state. And he tells a story of the sacred bonds between fathers and sons, which are tested in his tender and strained relationship with his namesake, John Ames Boughton, his best friend's wayward son. This is also the tale of another remarkable vision--not a corporeal vision of God but the vision of life as a wondrously strange creation. It tells how wisdom was forged in Ames's soul during his solitary life, and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten.
2004
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Robinson, Marilynne.
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Large print ed.
2006 2004
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Large print
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Gilead [text (large print)] / Robinson, Marilynne.
Robinson, Marilynne. Jerome, Timothy. Macmillan Audio (Firm) Playaway Digital Audio. Findaway World, LLC.
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Unabridged.
In 1956, as a minister approaches the end of his life, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets.
2012 2005
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Playaway
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Gilead [sound recording] : a novel / Robinson, Marilynne.
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